In place of informative, reasoned opinion, powerful because of its logic and humaneness, we have sentiment.
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And Democrats who feel they already have public sentiment behind them, maybe two months from now they'll have even more.
"A blender or silverware off a traditional registry won't quite have the sentiment you are looking for, " he says.
Our poll shows they have voter sentiment with them in the abstract, but holding those voters through the details of deficit reduction is another matter.
Though unusually high levels of bearish sentiment have corresponded with market bottoms, there have been 10 periods when an initial rise in bearish sentiment above 50% has been followed by at least a second reading above 50% within a four-week period.
Sticking with the technical theme for a moment longer, the boys in the bull camp have been pointing out this week that the sentiment indicators have backed off of their extreme readings recently and that the market is no longer overbought.
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The bearish stance I have adopted is a dramatic change of sentiment as I have been bullish for sometime now.
Since then, key indicators like employment, manufacturing data and consumer sentiment have continued on a downward trajectory.
Money has been returning to the stock market and recent measures of consumer sentiment have been improving dramatically.
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High levels of bullish sentiment have been correlated with market reversals, but other indicators should be considered before making a market forecast.
The most labile European country on matters nuclear has, not surprisingly, been Germany, where great engineering and anti-nuclear sentiment have long coexisted uneasily.
Wide divergences in economic performance and public sentiment have occurred before.
Recent statement from top Fed governors have made that sentiment clear.
"Both institutional and private clients became increasingly worried about economic conditions in March and thus far we have seen that sentiment accelerate in April, " he said.
Money-market funds mostly have experienced outflows this year as concerns about the euro-zone debt crisis and a weak economic outlook in the U.S. have weighed on sentiment.
The BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin says others have echoed the sentiment, including Mr Niebel, who said there were 800 million people in the world who were hungry.
Industry analysts are cautiously optimistic about the sector after stronger year-to-date sales, healthier inventory levels, more favorable credit conditions and improved consumer sentiment have boosted demand for American light-vehicle manufacturing.
"A rate cut would have been a sentiment booster, and now in the short term we expect a selloff in equities, " said Rajesh Samtani, a fund manager at Anand Rathi Securities.
The Toulouse killings have certainly reinforced this sentiment and vote, which was underestimated by pollsters.
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The rising allocation to stocks and stock funds confirms what we have seen in our sentiment survey.
The weaker dollar and stronger yen have contributed toward improved sentiment in stock and currency markets within the region.
High debt levels and a scandal last year involving CEO Aubrey McClendon have also soured investor sentiment towards the stock.
Concerns over climate change have transformed this dismal sentiment into a theology, with carbon emissions treated as a form of original sin.
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Deteriorating global sentiment may have been a factor in Vietnam's manufacturing contraction in February, as HSBC's Vietnam PMI slipped to 48.3 from January's 50.1 reading.
That sentiment may have been behind the surprising success of the radical JVP, but it certainly was the explicit reason for leftist MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara's defection in Parliament this week.
Two different firms that study social media sentiment, Taykey and General Sentiment, have issued Oscar predictions based on what people are saying on Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms.
As a rule, the bigger and scarier bear markets have been, the bigger the floodgates have opened toward this sentiment--this view that the new problems are just too big and bad to overcome.
Investor sentiment seems to have swung from maximum optimism in September to maximum pessimism in November.
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